Well, normal frequency anyhow. As of now, I see the doc every 2 weeks until we hit 36 weeks, then its every week. This means we are nearing the end. (!). How bizarre! I can't quite wrap my brain around the fact that in 8 or so weeks, a little human baby will be in our house. It's just too weird. I'm not exactly getting nervous, I guess it's just a strange feeling of reality settling in. Until now, it's been a sort of distant thought because we've gone through the busy months of buying selling the houses, moving, settling in, vacation, etc. Now, it's 2 months of just pure waiting, or something akin to it anyhow. I surely don't have much else going on. Jonathan will start school in a few weeks so he'll be semi-occupied with that. Otherwise, no distracting events on the horizon. Just waiting to get the last details into place before the baby arrives.
It appears that guesses on gender are nearly split down the middle in the family. I think both sides are secretly routing for a girl, since it's been 25 years since a girl has showed up on my mom's side, and all the other pregnant cousins in the Ruiz family are having boys. My cousin and his wife had their baby last week, which we thought would be a girl, but it was a boy. So "the pressure is on" to break the boy-spell in the Rohrbach clan and birth a girl. I'm nervous to have a girl, honestly. Those reasons may be fabrications in my brain or just the reality that little girls are a handful, but I'm still sort of hoping for a boy though I think I'm setting myself up to be disappointed. Well, not disappointed, that sounds terribly selfish to have an opinion on the gender of my baby...but you know. It will surely be the most spoiled little girl ever, so we'll have to work double time at making sure she's disciplined and doesn't become bratty! At least everyone seems to like the girl's name, contrary to the popular opinion on the boy's name.
I guess I have to count kicks now. This seems ridiculous, as most of the things they've made me do so far...I swear, the stupid hoops you must jump through with the medical world just to have a baby. So stupid. and we wonder why healthcare costs are through the roof-they keep adding ridiculous "necessary" procedures! Anyhow, the kick-counting particularly seems ridiculous because at this point, I'm pretty familiar with this baby's "habits" and it's rather active, so I would notice if an entire day went by without any movement. I mean geez, there's not a lot of room in there so I do notice every little foot and elbow that's moved as it situates itself "comfortably". So yea, two times a day, I have to pay attention for 2 hours and record if there are less than ten distinct movements. I'm lucky if I remember to pee in a cup the morning of my appointments, so we'll see how this daily assignment goes.
I received my first massage ever yesterday, which was specifically tailored to pregnant mothers. Quite relaxing. I could probably use a massage once a month when I'm NOT pregnant because my back muscles just become disasterously knotted, so they're especially a mess right now. It was nice to have those loosened up a bit. Apparently my feet are the most stressed out part of my body, which I am not surprised by other than the fact that there's no visible swelling, really no swelling of any kind in my legs or feet. I'm quite thankful I've been spared that. Of course, it could still happen in these last couple of months, but so far, nothing. Guess I drink enough to cleanse my system and avoid retaining a lot of water?
Anyhow, that's a brief update for now. Not much else new...
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